Libation-based sibling rivalry

18 December 2014

Day 18: On Christmas Day

The carol for today's cocktail is a contemporary song by the group Father Tiger called On Christmas Day. It's a little funky, a little modern and has an electronic dance music (EDM) groove. And you can download it for FREE!

So here's the deal. We (here "we" means Drew) thought of doing something cool to highlight the EDM nature of On Christmas Day. Maybe some tonic water and a black light? Maybe some coloured frozen ice cubes to represent motes of neon lights in a club? Or maybe Drew had delusions of grandeur (it is, after all, Day 18). Anyhow, we landed on something simpler. Like just using a more "hip" base spirit such as pisco. So here it is...

Place all of the ingredients but the cherry into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until chilled. Strain into coupe glass and garnish with a cherry (or two).

Cocktail NotesDrew loves pisco. In fact, 2011 was the year of the pisco sour for him and he's not looked back since. Kate had not had pisco until this cocktail but her exact words after trying some were,"Why are we not drinking more pisco?" So if you haven't had it, TRY IT!

This cocktail is actually a variation of the Pillow Talk. Drew liked the idea of tea-infused pisco. We tried three types of tea infusions: dragon pearl, earl grey and mulberry leaf. Pisco, or at least the pisco we used, really accentuates floral flavours. Who knew? Not us. The dragon pearl had WAY too much of a jasmine overtone and actually did taste like your grandmother's Avon order. The earl grey was rather pleasant (and ended up being a nice infused pisco sour later). The mulberry highlighted the violet notes in the Creme Yvette without being too floral.